Tech apocalypse: Five doomsday scenarios for IT
Infoworld writes about five theoretical doomsday scenarios for IT and the world.
ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Technology drives just about everything we do, and not just at our jobs. From banks to hospitals to the systems that keep the juice flowing to our homes, we are almost entirely dependent on tech. More and more of these systems are interconnected, and many of them are vulnerable. We see it almost every day.
But what if instead of simply a denial-of-service attack against select Websites, the entire Internet suddenly stopped working -- or for that matter, Google could not be reached. What if instead of a mere data breach, our financial institutions were attacked by a weapon that could instantly neutralize all electronic transactions? Or if hackers wormed their way into the systems that control the power grid?
How would the world be affected by any of these five doomsday attacks ?
- Tech doomsday scenario No. 1: America goes dark
- Tech doomsday scenario No. 2: Wall Street gets e-bombed
- Tech doomsday scenario No. 3: Google is gone
- Tech doomsday scenario No. 4: The Net goes down
- Tech doomsday scenario No. 5: An act of Nature